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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does Tash say he will repay?
(a) Miss Irene.
(b) The judge who sent him there.
(c) Tupac.
(d) His brother.
2. To what does the narrator relate Tupac's arrest?
(a) To how slaves were brutalized.
(b) To the arrest of others in Queens.
(c) To Mahatma Gandhi's arrest.
(d) To Mandela's arrest.
3. What is it about the East Side train that makes the narrator and Neeka's family uneasy?
(a) The train is swaying and making them a little seasick.
(b) The tracks are really rough.
(c) The train is full of white people.
(d) Not knowing exactly where they are supposed to get off.
4. What does the narrator say about the evidence against Tupac for sexual assault?
(a) It is overwhelming that the accuser is lying.
(b) It is overwhelming against Tuapc.
(c) The narrator does not mention the evidence.
(d) It is scanty.
5. What is behind the picture from the narrator's mother?
(a) 10 dollars.
(b) 20 dollars.
(c) A letter to her daughter.
(d) A letter from her father.
6. Where does Jayjones say black men cannot be caught?
(a) Anywhere outside of their front door.
(b) In white neighborhoods.
(c) In expensive cars.
(d) In white nightclubs.
7. To what point does the narration move forward in Chapter 10?
(a) Three years later.
(b) The next May.
(c) November.
(d) Two years later.
8. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?
(a) To the amphiteater where she had such an emotional experience.
(b) To see Neeka's father in a hospital.
(c) To interview at a college.
(d) To visit Tash in prison.
9. What does Neeka say about Tash?
(a) He is scary.
(b) At least he is out of drugs in prison.
(c) He would not hurt a fly.
(d) He has a bad temper, but would not do any more than slap a person.
10. Why does Randall not tell his side of the story?
(a) He hates Tash now.
(b) He is intimidated.
(c) He is hospitalized.
(d) He is dead.
11. What quality does Neeka want to have?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Integrity.
(c) Sex appeal.
(d) She does not say.
12. How does Randall resemble Tash?
(a) He is religious.
(b) He is devious.
(c) He is an effeminate gay man.
(d) He is calm and somber.
13. Why is Tash moved?
(a) He is harrassed about being gay and Tash cuts the man.
(b) He is not moved.
(c) He is moved to a work camp.
(d) He asked to get closer to his family.
14. What does D say about a counselor's statement in a group home?
(a) The counselor says that D is no good.
(b) The counselor says that D is wonderful.
(c) The counselor says that D's kind of child is a throwaway kid.
(d) The counselor says that D has more potential than any child there.
15. Of what is Tash convinced about Sly?
(a) That he is gay.
(b) That he is corrupt.
(c) That he is a racist.
(d) That he is wealthy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is one thing Jayjones says black people cannot do?
2. How does Tash's recklessness get him in trouble?
3. What does Jayjones say happens to black men in the wrong places?
4. What does Neeka's group share?
5. Who is Tash?
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